Wednesday 7 October 2015

Sri Thanjapureeswarar Temple and Sri Narasimha Perumal Temple, Ponniyin Selvan Meet 2015, Yazhi Nagar, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu

 07, October 2015
Reached Thanjavur by 07.00 Hrs morning and the meet was scheduled at 15.30 Hrs. So planned to visit nearby temples. I could able to see Sri Thanjapureeswarar Temple and Sri Veeranarasimhar Temple at Vennatrankarai. I didn’t aware that there are two more Divya desam Vishnu  temples near to Sri Veera Narasimhar Temple. So missed both. People guided me wrongly to get down at Kodi Amman Temple ( this was also a historical temple ) and walked all the way to Sri Thanjapureeswarar temple.

SRI THANJAPUREESWARAR TEMPLE .
This temple is also called as Kuberapureeswarar Temple. Lord Thanjapureeswarar meaning the Lord offers asylum to those surrender to Him. 

 The three tier Rajagopuram 

Moolavar    : Sri Thanjapureeswarar
Consort      : Sri Anandavalli

Some of the important features of this temple are …..
The temple facing east with 3 tier Rajagopuram at front. Dwajasthambam, balipeedam  and Rishabam in the outer open prakaram under a shed.

In the outer prakaram Sannadhi for Lingas, Dwarabalakar, Dakshinamurthy, Gajalakshmi, Saraswathy and Panchamuga Anjaneyar, Chandikeswarar, Arthanareeswarar, Brahma, Kuberan, Sri Ayyappan and Navagrahas.

Dwarapalakas are at the entrance of mukha mandapam and Sani and Bairavar are in the mukha mandapam. Artha mandapam is of vavval nethi mandapam type.

Ambal is in a standing posture and there is a mandapam in front of Ambal Sannidhi. Ashtalakshmi sudhai sirpangal are on pillars of the mandapam.

In Koshtam Durgai, Brahma, Dakshinamurthy and Natarajar. Moolavar is little big in size and tall.

HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
It was told that the temple is older than Thanjavur Big temple, 1000 to 2000 years. To prove this there is no inscriptions available. Marathi inscriptions are there on the front mandapam Pillars. Marathi kings might had dome thirupani.

 Martahi inscriptions 
 Martahi inscriptions 
 Martahi inscriptions 
Martahi inscriptions 
LEGENDS
When Kuberan lost all his wealth to his brother Ravana, came to Thanjavur to worship Lord Shiva and got back all his wealth.  Hence Lord Shiva is called as Thanjapureeswrar.

TEMPLE TIMINGS :
The temple is kept open between 07.00 Hrs to 12.00 Hrs and 16.30 Hrs to 20.00 Hrs.

CONTACT DETAILS:
Duraiswamy Gurukkal may be contacted  through his mobile 9677818114

HOW TO REACH :
The Temple is on the main road ie. on the way from Thanjavur to Thiruvaiyaru, 5 KM from Thanjavur. Get down after Kodi Amman Temple.

LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE CLICK HERE


 Moolavar Vimanam  
 Moolavar Vimanam and Dakshinamurthy sannadhi 
 Ambal Temple front mandapam 

SRI NARASIMHA PERUMAL TEMPLE
This is one of the 108 Divya Desa Vishnu Temples on the banks of River Vennaru. There are three temples forms one Divya Desa  Temple, which are 200 meters to 300 meters apart from each other called as Thanjaimaamani Koyil. Mangalasasanam was done by Thirumangai alwar, Nammalwar and Bhoodhathalwar. The other two are Sri Manikundra Perumal Temple and Sri Neelamega Perumal temple. In ancient days this place was called as Yazhinagar. 



Moolavar : Sri Veeranarasimhar
Thayar    : Sri Thanjai Nayagi

Some of the important features of this temple are….
The temple is facing East with separate sanndhi for Thanjai Nayagi Thayar, Andal and Thirumangai Alwar. Moolavar Narasimhar is in in sitting posture with Sridevi and Bhoodevi and Garudalvar sannadhi is in the front mandapam..

In the mandapam sannadhi for Sri Renganathar, Varadharajar, Visvakshenar, PeriyaNambikal, Alavanthar, Ramanujar and Manavala Mamunikal.

Dwajasthambam, Palipedam and Garudalwar are immediately after the entrance arch..

As per the legend Sri Veera Narasimhar took the form of Yazhi to Kill demon Thanjaka, who took the form of elephant. Hence this place was called as Thanjai Yazhi Nagar or Thanjamapuri and latter it became Thanjavur.

Marathi inscriptions available on the pillars, which speaks about the significant contributions done to this temple by King Saraboji.

TEMPLE TIMINGS :
The temple will be kept opened between 08.00 hrs to 12.00 hrs and 17.00 hrs to 20.00 hrs.

CONTACT DETAILS :
The following are telephone numbers 8940212119 and 9952114758.

HOW TO REACH :
The Temple is on the main road -on the way from Thanjavur to Thiruvaiyaru, 5 KM from Thanjavur. Get down after Kodiamman Temple.

LOCATION  :CLICK HERE

 Entrance Mottai Gopuram 
 Sanctum sanctorum view from Mottai Gopuram 
 Dwajasthambam and balipeedam 


 Moolavar sannadhi 
 Lakshmi Narayanan – a relief 
 Thanjai Nayagi Thayar sannadhi vimanam – Narasimhar on the gopuram a Stucco Image  
 Andal sannadhi 

How do they got these two Pallava period Simha Pillar and Nayak's period Yazhi pllar. If these belongs to this temple then temple must be at least 600 to 700 years old.  Now installed for the well.
To be Continued .........
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA ---

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